Château de Puilaurens
Clifftop medieval border fortress with zigzag entrance walls, crenellated towers and valley views.
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This guide to the Château de Puilaurens, in the hills south of Carcassonne, is about a royal fortress built for one job on the old frontier between France and Aragon. It follows King Louis the Ninth's garrison, the Catalan soldiers of the sixteen-thirties, and a legend that attached itself to one tower. Listen from the ramparts, looking south.
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